How to remove user/account from cPanel backups (cpbackup)
Sometimes you may be required to remove a user from cPanel backups due to inode usage or directory size, in order to do that you can use the web interface to exclude those users in…
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Host Tornado fixpath.sh shell script to fix broken or incorrect paths
Have you ever transferred over your own site or a customers site from another server just to find out that it does not work because the full path has changed? This can commonly happen whenever…
Enable fopen only for a specific cPanel or linux user with suPHP
For security reasons most hosts will have fopen disabled. This is for security reasons but there are also times when it is legitimately needed. Below I will show you how to enable fopen for a…
How to keep cPanel httpd.conf settings from being reset or removed
Have you made a change to the /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf file and it’s not sticking? This is because you are not supposed to edit that file directly on a cPanel server! Many linux guru’s have made this…
How to change cPanel theme for specific user
All cPanel account information for each specific account is stored in the /var/cpanel/users/USERNAME If you need to change the specific theme for a certain user this is the file you need to edit, and the…
How to check cPanel CPU and Memory usage for a specific user
There are a few ways to do this and I will explain some of them for you below. cPanel has a "built in" way to view this but I will give you a way to…
Using SCP to copy a file on a non standard ssh port
Frequently system administrators will change the SSH port from the standard port 22 for security reasons. If this is the case and you need to transfer something via SCP, below is the command to transfer…
Linux Bash Script to Patch WHMCS 5.1 Google Checkout Security Vulnerability
Yesterday WHMCS released an announcement that there was a security vulnerability with the Google Checkout module in the 5.0 – 5.1.2 versions of WHMCS. This vulnerability can permit a malicious user to inject SQL via…
How to install and configure an FTP Server (vsFTP) on CentOS 6 in 5 minutes
In an earlier post I gave a quick tutorial on how to transfer files using LFTP instead of rsync or scp, and I had a few questions about setting up a simple and easy FTP…
How to install Git under CentOS running cPanel
Recently when working on creating a new bash script to calculate inode usage I attempted to install Git on a CentOS 5 cPanel server and got a lot of Perl errors. After running the install…
